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Emcee: Virgil FOK Chin Wai (BMus4)

SO Ho Chi

“O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!” (16')

Reimagining “Beethoven’s Symphony No 9" for Orchestra

Tanja Elisa GLINSNER

SCINTILLAE or ‘froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen’ for Orchestra (15')

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Choral Fantasy in C minor, Op. 80 (19')

I. Adagio

II. Finale: Allegro - Meno allegro - Allegro moltoAdagio ma non troppo -Marcia, assai vivace

Piano: Alexander LAU Shing Ho (VS)

Soprano: Lorraine CHAN Long Yan(BMus3)

Soprano: Lieserl HUEN Tsz Ying (BMus3)

Mezzo-soprano: Alice LI Zixian (MMus1)

Tenor: Jason LI Cho Shun (BMus3)

Tenor: Jeff CHAN Chun Fung (BMus4)

Baritone: Aaron KWAN Cheuk Shing (BMus3)

Academy Choir

Academy Symphony Orchestra

The timings are given as a guide.

SO HO CHI

Hong Kong, China

So Ho Chi is a multimedia composer whose works ranging from instrumental, vocal and choral works to electroacoustic composition, field recordings, music performance as theatre, and 360-degree video Growing up in postcolonial Hong Kong, identity has been a recurring theme in his works. Often focusing on the re-interpreting and recontextualizing the sonic and performative materials appropriated, he creates a new form or situation to the sound and performance as a mean to question the convention and re-imagining new possibilities of organization of the materials, to evoke questions hidden beneath the convention.

His works has been selected to perform in various music festivals, competitions and concerts, such as Gaudeamus Muziekweek, ISCM World Music Days 2019 Tallinn, Orkest de Ereprijs - Young Composer Meeting, Asian Composers' League, “Sound Forms” - a festival of multi-channel sound organized by Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, Hong Kong Phil Composer Workshop – “Beyond the Ring”, and Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag Spring Festival

TANJA ELISA GLINSNER

Vienna, Austria

Photo credit: Theresa Pewal

Born in 1995 (Austria), Tanja Elisa Glinsner studied composition with Michael Jarrell and Wolfgang Suppan, Voice with Claudia Visca and Christoph U Meier, as well as orchestral conducting with Mark Stringer at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Her works have already been awarded numerous awards including the 1st Austrian Female Composer Award, the Theodor Körner Prize 2023, the Austrian State Scholarship, the Arnold Schönberg Scholarship (A Schönberg-Centre Vienna) and the Composition Prize of the Austrian Broadcasting Station Ö1 (Ö1 Talentebörse)

Performers and commissioners of the young composer and singer include the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Kaiserslautern (SR), NÖTonkünstler-Orchestra, the ORF Musikprotokoll, Ensemble xxj. Jahrhundert as well as the Austrian National Bank

She is a scholarship holder of the Anny Felbermayr Foundation, as well as of the Deutsche Bank Foundation's scholarship programme ‘Musiktheater HEUTE’ - as part of which she is commissioned to compose a chamber opera for Ensemble MODERN (Premiere –Autmun’24)

She recently celebrated her composer’s debut in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, where her work "BlurRed" was given its Austrian premiere by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO) under the baton of Marin Alsop:

Tanja Elisa Glinsner's "BlurRed" for orchestra turned out to be an introspection into the traumatized worlds of the soul ( ) she transformed the orchestral apparatus into a cornucopia of horror with Richard Strauss-like sonority ( )

In addition to her work as a composer, she is active as mezzo-soprano

In 2023/24 she was the 3rd lady in W A Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz /Munich, (Con. Domonkos Hèja/ stage direction. Rosamund Gilmore) and as Mrs Reich in Otto Niccolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor (dir Hartmut Keil, ins Helen Malkowsky) at the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre (Vienna).

Most recently, she made her debut as alto soloist in Das Buch der sieben Siegeln under the baton of Manfred Honeck in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein

“O

Freunde, nicht diese Tönel”

Reimagining “Beethoven’s Symphony No.9" for Orchestra

In “O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!”, I intended to explore the idea between “rejected sound” - noise, and “unified sound” - harmony The dissonant chord of the 4th movement of Beethoven’s symphony no 9 is being re-orchestrate and deconstructed into different variations in which the foundational notes are according to harmonic series based on the sequence of the pitch in the opening phrase of the Baritone solo (A,E,D,C#,G,Bb,F), which is exactly the pitches constituted the dissonant chord in the beginning of the second exposition Each variations will morph and deconstructed, in different ways, into different kinds of tone cluster The harmonic content of the tone cluster is derived from the pitches in the Baritone phrase that those pitches is edited out to leave only the inharmonics of the sound

HUE

expresses true colors, such as red, violet, and yellow and is used to determine redness (reddish), greenish (greenish), etc.

It is to question the boundary between the “rejected sound” and “unified sound”, and any possible reconciliation between the rejected and the unified. Is the very act of rejecting a sound that there is order in the utopia Beethoven suggested and it is not for every kinds of voices, particularly for those in dissonance? Does utopia have to be constructed from suppressing and rejecting? There may not be an utopia, in Beethoven’s sense, on earth, but it might be possible that different voices could live peacefully together, albeit temporally.

sometimes called chroma, is the purity or strength of a color.

SO Ho Chi

SCINTILLAE or ‘froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen’ for Orchestra

Symbols of community and of peace determine Schiller's pathetic statement and the particularly optimistic and partly transcendental impact of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Symbols of the circle are omnipresent here

With my composition "SCINTILLAE or ‘froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen’ for Orchestra”, I would like to place these very statements in a symbolic, eternal context:

Based on the mandala symbolism, the theories on the individuation process of Carl G Jung, which are associated with the transcendental function of the circle number Pi, colorful, mandala-like, circular sound surfaces are to be formed, whose scintillae (- latin for "spark" -) or contemplative centers consist of motifs from Beethoven Ninth.

These circular areas follow each other at intervals determined by the number pi:

"Froh wie seine Sonnen fliegen durch des Himmels prächt'gen Planlaufet, Brüder, eure Bahn…" (Eng. "Joyful as his suns fly through heaven's magnificent plan - run, brothers, run your course ")

This results in several sequences of circular areas different solar orbits: In the background - above all this - a "starry sky" of overtonerich, atmospheric whispering sounds (- text elements from the "Ode to Joy") - with this I would like to "create an infinite space" for an immanent interaction of Schiller's textual, overtone-rich spherical level (starry sky) with Beethoven's instrumental, tonally more concrete, earthly level (solar orbits).

Tanja Elisa GLINSNER

Beethoven Choral Fantasy

GERMAN

Schmeichelnd hold und lieblich klingen

unsers Lebens Harmonien, und dem Schönheitssinn entschwingen Blumen sich, die ewig blüh’n

Fried’ und Freude gleiten freundlich wie der Wellen Wechselspiel; was sich drängte rauh und feindlich, ordnet sich zu Hochgefühl

Wenn der Töne Zauberwalten und des Wortes Weihe spricht, muß sich Herrliches gestalten Nacht und Stürme werden Licht.

Äuß’re Ruhe inn’re Wonne herrschen für den Glücklichen Doch der Künste Frühlingssonne läßt aus beiden Licht entsteh’n.

Großes das ins Herz gedrungen, blüht dann neu und schön empor, hat ein Geist sich aufgeschwungen, hallt ihm stets ein Geisterchor

Nehmt denn hin, ihr schönen Seelen, froh die Gaben schöner Kunst Wenn sich Lieb’ und Kraft vermählen, lohnt den Menschen Göttergunst

ENGLISH

Caressingly sweet and charming sound the harmonies of our life, and to the sense of beauty waft the flowers that for ever bloom

Peace and joy join in friendship, as the sporting of the waves; that which oppressed, rough and harsh, turns now to elation

When the magic of music prevails and the word’s solemnity speaks, something wondrous is created, night and tempests turn to light.

Outer peace, inner joy reign for the happy Yet in the spring sunshine of art light emerges from both.

Greatness that entered in our hearts blooms forth new and fair, a spirit has soared up, ringing out as a spirit choir

Accept then, you fair souls, in gladness the gifts of fair art If love and strength are wedded, the gods’ favour is bestowed upon mankind

SHARON ANDREA CHOA

In 2007, Sharon was nominated as ‘inspirational woman of the world’ with her portrait appearing in the National Gallery Her achievements as musician, conductor and entrepreneur are featured in Zerbanoo Gifford’s book “Confessions to a Serial Womaniser” Trained rigorously both as a performer and academic, Sharon possesses the intellectual prowess always to seek the deepest meaning and the innermost essence of the composers’ thoughts in her interpretation of musical works Her mixed ancestry encourages an understanding of the value and strength of cross-cultural ties and interdisciplinary connections in her programming ideas Sharon’s long-years practice of the art of Taiji makes for a physical approach to conducting that focuses on the inner strength of the body and mind Her premiere of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Chinese at the 2004 BBC Proms ‘East meets West’ series established her as a conductor of remarkable musical abilities and intensity

Born in Hong Kong and enjoyed an exceptional Anglo-Chinese education, Sharon excelled in the violin at an early age and first began conducting at the age of 16 during the study period. She was later accepted at the Royal Academy of Music as a violinist to study under the great quartet leader Sidney Griller Sharon also holds the First Class B.Mus. and Ph.D degrees from King's College London. During her studies at King’s, her talent of conducting was rediscovered and coached by the conductors Lawrence Leonard, Diego Masson, Georg Tintner, Janos Fürst, Jiří Bĕlohlávek and Sir Colin Davis. Trained rigorously both in performance and academia, she became the Director of Performance and Lecturer in Music at the University of East Anglia (UEA) Norwich in 1996; taking over the UEA Symphony Orchestra as Chief Conductor Since then, she has taken the orchestra on tour to Germany, Italy, Austria and Moravia as well as being the guest conductor of professional orchestras in Germany, Russia, the Czech Republic and Hong Kong

In 2001, Sharon founded Chamber Orchestra Anglia (COA), a professional ensemble that draws together creative, cultural and academic strengths in the UK The orchestra has presented a numerous of concerts that earned itself a reputation for its innovative programming Whilst in the U K, Sharon has been awarded many performance and academic prizes and has been given individual grants by Arts Council England, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Council to further develop her musical and entrepreneurial activities. She was awarded the Norfolk Arts Award and the A R A M (Associate of the Royal Academy of Music) in 2014 At the same year when she returned to her birthplace, Hong Kong, she took up the position as Dean of the School of Music at the HK Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) In 2022, Sharon created a new departmentConducting & Cultural Leadership - within the School and shifted her position to lead and direct this new initiative

In Hong Kong, she was the guest conductor of the HK Philharmonic, and was Principal Guest conductor of the HK New Music Ensemble – taking the ensemble on tour to the Tong Yeong Festival and the Gwangju Festival in Korea, as well as performing in a series of high-profile concerts in Hong Kong. In 2016, she and her colleagues at the HKAPA founded an Philharmonia APA (PAPA), ensemble made up of the distinguished graduates from the School of Music. Since then, Sharon has taken the ensemble on tour to Vienna, and performed in different venues in Hong Kongwhich received considerable acclaim Also, Sharon is serving as the chief resident conductor of the APA Symphony Orchestra, performing regularly with the orchestra locally as well as on tour to Taipei, Beijing, and Shenzhen. She also conducts the annual composition workshops at APA, giving young student composers the opportunity to record and perform their works live In 2019, she cofounded The Orchestra Academy in partnership with the HK Philharmonic Orchestra, giving APA’s distinguished graduates a chance to further hone their skills in the professional world. In 2023 Summer, she will lead the first Greater Bay Area Youth Orchestra (GBAYO) tour as its Music Director GBAYO has been founded by the APA with the Swire Group as its founding sponsor.

In her spare time, Sharon is an ardent Qigong and Taiji practitioner, as well as a keen student of Chinese calligraphy In her life’s path, Sharon has been following the teachings of Zen Buddhism (Kwan Um School) and is currently a student at the Su Bong Zen Monastery.

The Academy Choir of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts consists of students from various music departments, including the Department of Vocal Studies The Choir holds weekly rehearsals and performs a diverse range of choral repertoire in the Academy's departmental concerts, opera scenes, and fully staged opera productions. The Choir has also collaborated with local and overseas arts organizations. Recent engagements include Bach's Christmas Oratorio directed by Helmut Rilling with SingFest, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 performed alongside the choir of St. Martin-in-theFields under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas for RTHK Radio 4, and Mahler's Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection” with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Other major works include Handel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Faure's Requiem, and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy.

Soprano

Angel TSANG Pui Tseng

KONG Bethia

Cecilia LIN Yu Yin

ZHENG Churou

Jessica HUANG Jiaxin

Leighton LI Tsz Ying

Lisa CHEN Sihui

Michelle SIU Hoi Yan

QIU Shuang

Tamara TONG Yu Lo

Seiko CHEUK Yee Lam

Zoey ZHOU Run

Victoria LiAO Minchong

TU YuTian

Jeannie CHEN Jing

Alto

Ally WONG Sin Ying

Angel PAN Anqi

Charlotte GU Yuantong

Cherry CHUNG Cheuk Ka

Jenty LEUNG Ka Tung

Illuminatius NG Yan Ling

Kathryn KWOK Tsz Wing

Kathy SO Ka Wei

Kiwi LOH Pui Kiu

Nicole TSE Wai Tung

Nicole XIA Zihan

Sherrine XIE Shiying

Sylvie CHEUNG Hei Lam

Victoria CHEN Qijing

YIN Run Han

YIP Hei Man

Whitely LI Weilin

DAI Rongxi

Tenor

Alex KWOK Pak Yu

Chad LU Wenzhe

Sam CHAN Shing Chak

Gary KAM Ka Yiu

LI Xiang

Jay NG Man Lok

Jerry XU Zhehao

King CHEUK King Yau

Peter CHAN Chon Teng

Raphael CHAN Tsz Yin

Ronald LO Ching Long

Winson LIN Ruiheng

Tommy CHOW Wai Chung

HUANG Xiaoxi

Bass

Curtis YONG Hua Qian

Douglas YIU Ching Lok

Henry WONG Chun Hang

Jacko LAU Wan Lok

Jerald NG Ion Hei

Jerry FUNG Chun Man

Louis CHUNG Tsz Yin

NIE Chenyang

Pete YU Ting Fai

HU Qiyuan

Sean FENG Ban Hou

Virgil FOK Chin Wai

WAI Hung Yip

Isaac WONG Ho Ching

Justin SUN Zhi Xian

Edward LEUNG Chin Wai

Ryan LEE Lok Hang

YEUNG Ka Ho Jonathan

Wayne CHEUNG Wai Sing

YAO Tianyu

ACADEMY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MUSIC DIRECTOR:

SHARON ANDREA CHOA

Within the HKAPA’s School of Music, orchestral training is a significant part of the students’ education All students of orchestral instruments participate in the Academy Symphony Orchestra, whose weekly rehearsals cover the standard symphonic literature as well as contemporary works Academy Symphony Orchestra not only has extensive performance experience locally but also learns and collaborates with numerous internationally renowned orchestras and conductors, such as the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and guest conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Marko Ivanovi, François-Xavier Roth, Pietro Mianiti, Stuart Stratford, Pietro Mianiti, Patrick Furrer, Andrew Mogrelia, Eitan Globerson, Yip Wing-sie, Lio Kuokman, Ip Wing-wun amongst many others The orchestra members have toured to Beijing and Shanghai to join professional orchestral concerts and to Jerusalem and Taiwan to give chamber recitals. They also collaborated with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in their Penderecki project and participated in the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s “Share the Stage’’ events Maestro Jaap van Zweden, Music Director of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra along with musicians from the orchestra, have made multiple visits to the Academy instructing the orchestra in the interpretation of various pieces With the Academy Choir, they performed Bach’s Christmas Oratorio under the direction of Helmut Rilling The Orchestra has a busy performing schedule every academic year including playing for our annual opera production.

Under the baton of its Music Director, Prof. Sharon Choa, the Orchestra was invited to perform in the Festive Korea 2016 Gala Concert presented by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in October 2016 at the Concert Hall of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre together with three international Korean violinist Hyuna Kim, violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill and cellist Clara Minhye Kim. In June 2017 the Orchestra joined forces with the Shenzhen Arts School Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in two concerts which were held in Shenzhen and Hong Kong respectively. In October 2017 the Orchestra visited Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) and performed with the wind and percussion students from TNUA to critical acclaim. In June 2018 “Concerto Feast” was broadcasted by RTHK Radio 4, showcasing the talents of the student soloists and the ensemble In October 2019, the strings of the orchestra joint-hands with their counterpart in TNUA and were invited to perform in their Kuandu Arts Festival in Taipei for a second time. In July 2022, the orchestra collaborated with the Academy Choir to host a celebratory concert marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

In December 2023, the orchestra was honored with an invitation to participate in the closing concert of the 10th Hong Kong New Generation Arts Association Music Festival 2023. The performance featured renowned pianist Bai Jianyu and violinist Zhu Dan. The video recording of this concert is set to be broadcast in May 2024 to many Asian regions, including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and more, through CJENM (Asia’s Premier entertainment media channel tvN Asia).

VIOLIN I

Joshua CHAN Chak Him+ (Concertmaster)

WU Wanying^

YEUNG Ho Yin Victoria Kathleen

LO Sze Wing^

WONG Wing Hong

IP Hong Ni*

Rio LEE O

CHAN Nok Judy^

David YIP Yan Chi

TONG Ho Ching#

HO Hiu Ki*

LAM Hiu Han

VIOLIN II

CHOW Chung Yu* (Section Principal)

MAK Hoi Kiu

LI Shiming

LAM Hiu Wai^

LEUNG Man Him

CHAN Ka Yee Chole

CHEN Jiyu

LAM Tsz Ho

YANG Langjian

LEUNG Yat Hei

HUANG Zelin

VIOLA

Claire WONG Wing Hung* (Section Principal)

LIN Charles Yik Kiu*

WONG Chak Kiu^

Joab CHAN

PANG Hei Yeung

CHAN Lok Ka

ZHANG Yang

CHUNG Wan Yan

GONG Junyi

YEUNG King Tim

CELLO

CHAN Ching Wei Trevor*

(Section Principal)

Charlotte MAK Yui Wan

Jaclyn ZHENG Churou^

HUANG Jiaxin

Andrew LEUNG Tse Ming^

PAN Anqi

CHEUNG Hei Man*

WONG Ho Ming^

CHEN Junhao

LIU Yuemeng#

CHENG Ho Hei Horace*

TSE Man Yam

BASS

Bowie CHAU Wai I (Section Principal)

SO Lok Yee

ZHANG Yiqing

WANG Shenhao

YANG Yipeng

FLUTE

KWOK Yu Yan Rain

LEONG leng leng Eryn

LEUNG Wing Hang Lolo

LIN Xiao Tong Valerie

IP Wing Tung Chelsea

PICCOLO

LEONG leng leng Eryn

OBOE

CHAN Chun Young Ernest

CHEN Hanyu Jacky

MA Kaiwen Kevin

YAO Tianyu AI

CLARINET

CHAN Hau Wo Allen

CHUM Chun Shing Daniel

HE Kemi Camille

LAM Long

TSA Tsz Yin Kevin

BASSOON

CHUNG Cheuk Lam Alice

LO Yan Tung Nichole

OR Yuk Man Tom

HORN

CEVIK Adam

CHEONG Man U Derrick

LIN Han

SIU Chun Sing

TSUI Wing Yan Kelly

YEUNG Hei Chun Jason

TRUMPET

LAU Cheuk Ming Johnny

TO Hau Suet Venus

WONG Ching Hey Harvey

WONG Lok Yung Matthew

TROMBONE

CHENG Tin Nam Jonathan

TO Hau Tung Viann

WONG Ho Ching Isaac

TIMPANI & PERCUSSION

CHEUK Yee Lam Seiko

FU Siqi Sich

IM Pui Yan Priscilla

WONG Chun Hin Jeffrey

WONG Kwun Hang Dennis

INSTRUMENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

* In this performance are from generous donations to the School of Music by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust

^ In this performance are from generous loans to the School of Music by The Academy String Instruments Collection

+ In this performance is from generous loan to the School of Music by the SAC Collection

# In this performance are from generous loans to the School of Music by Dr. YU Chung Ping.

June 28 Friday June 21 Friday U P C O M I N G E V E N T S

Concerto Feast I

Academy Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Sharon Andrea CHOA

Concerto Feast II

Academy Symphony Orchestra

Guest conductor: YIP Wing Sie

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